Day 65: After a series of heavier posts, I offer up an ode to one of the wisest grief companions in my life: our Holland Lop,...

Day 59: How Does a Grief Therapist Grieve #10? Allow the Absence to Take Shape The grief is taking up residence. It has moved in. It...

Day 57: How Does a Therapist Grieve #9? I let myself fall apart in the car and on the airplane. Cars and planes can be grief...

Day 53: How Does a Therapist Grieve #5? Seek Out Projects (Hammer preferred) I grew up going to the hardware store with my dad. I...

Day 47: A New Series—How Does a Grief Therapist Grieve? In no particular order, I will be sharing on the topic of grieving as a grief...

Day 43: Anything Could Happen When our people die, anything could happen. In early grief, I am finding a pattern of death awareness to...

Day 40: Grief and the Pause In the grief world, there is a lot of talk about how important it is to FEEL the grief, to have it, to be...

Day 39: Grief as stubbornly suspenseful The maddening and confusing and relentless and stubborn nature of grief is something I hear about...

Day 38: Grief is a Learning Process Learning can be brutally hard. Think of how difficult it can be to learn a new language, a new sport,...

Day 84: Acute Grief—A Treacherous Landscape Acute grief is the term that refers to the initial phase of bereavement. Acute grief is the...

C.S. Lewis wrote A Grief Observed after his own experience of losing his partner. This small book has always stuck with me. His...

I wish any of us could actually know and prepare for our grief journey. Here are some truths I’ve come to believe about grief timelines:...

In grief, we are growing in two [seemingly] opposite directions. One growth direction is towards accessing our own strength and power and...

When we are grieving, we tend to remember how we felt in someone’s presence (if we are seen and heard OR not) instead of the exact words...

Disloyalty in grief is that experience of feeling badly for feeling ok. It tends to happen in those moments that you chuckle at something...